US breaks coronavirus record in single day as Donald Trump insists virus is ‘disappearing’

The United States set a new record for the most new coronavirus infections in a single day, hours after President Donald Trump once again insisted the virus was “disappearing.”

The United States reported 77,640 new cases Thursday, according to NBC News, beating its previous record of 75,723 set on July 29.

It also suffered another 921 deaths, with the total death toll now well above 220,000.

Currently, infections are increasing in most of the country, but particularly in the Midwestern states. The United States appears to be reaching the third peak of the pandemic, and more than 40,000 of its inhabitants are currently hospitalized.

During the last presidential debate last night, Trump told Americans that they were “turning around” and that those surges in infections would soon disappear.

“As you know, 2.2 million people were expected to die, modeled,” Trump said.

He was referring to a study published by British academics in March, which predicted what would happen if governments and citizens did nothing to slow the spread of the virus. It was not so much an expectation as the worst case scenario.

“It is a global pandemic, it is all over the world. You see the peaks in Europe and many other countries,” Trump continued.

“There was a very big spike in Texas. Now it’s gone. There was a very big spike in Arizona. Now it’s gone. And there are some peaks and tides elsewhere, they will soon disappear.

“We have a vaccine that is coming. It is ready. It will be announced in a few weeks. And it will be delivered.”

“We’re turning the curve, we’re turning the corner. He’s going.”

Trump’s electoral opponent, Democratic nominee Joe Biden, said Trump’s handling of the pandemic alone should convince Americans not to reelect him.

“(There are) 220,000 Americans dead,” Biden said.

“Whoever is responsible for so many deaths should not remain president of the United States.

“The expectation is that we will have another 200,000 dead Americans by the end of the year. And we are in a circumstance where the president, so far and yet, does not have a plan, a comprehensive plan.”

The two candidates discussed the correct approach to advancing the virus, with the president telling voters that Biden would send them back into the lockdown.

“We are learning to live with it, we have no choice, we cannot lock ourselves in our basement like Joe does,” Trump said.

“He has that thing about living in a basement.

“I caught it, I learned a lot, great doctors, and now I have recovered, 99.9 percent of young people recover. 99.9 percent of people recover.

“We cannot close our nation.”

“He says we’re learning to live with it. People are learning to die with it,” Biden responded.

“Learning to live with it. Come on. People are dying.”

“It’s not my fault that he came here, it’s China’s fault,” Trump said.

“They prevented it from reaching the rest of China for the most part, but they didn’t stop it from reaching the world.”

Biden said the problem was not the origin of the virus, but how the president reacted.

“When we found out he was coming, when he hit, what happened? What did the president say? He said don’t worry, he’s going to go,” said the Democrat.

“Even today, he thinks we are in control. We are about to lose 200,000 more people.”

Trump mentioned the travel restrictions he imposed on China in early February.

“When I closed, he said he shouldn’t have closed. And that went on for months,” the president said of his opponent.

“Now he says he should have closed it earlier.”

He said Biden had called him a “xenophobic” for imposing the partial travel ban.

“I spoke of his xenophobia in a different context. Not in terms of closing the border,” Biden replied.

“We have to open our country. We cannot close this country. This is a massive country with a massive economy. People are losing their jobs, they are committing suicide, there is depression, alcohol, drugs, at a level that no one has seen before.” Trump argued.

“We have to open our country. I have said it many times, the cure cannot be worse than the problem itself, and that is what is happening.

“And he wants to shut down, he will shut down the country if one person in our massive bureaucracy says we should shut it down.”

“Definitely not true,” Biden replied.

“You have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. We have to be able to open safely. We need resources to open.

“You need power, for example, if you are going to open a business, have social distancing within the business. You need to have, if you have a restaurant, Plexiglass dividers so that people cannot infect each other.”

Trump didn’t like the idea of ​​Plexiglass at all. He brought up the situation in his hometown, New York, and called it a “ghost town.”

“I’m going to say this. If you look at what happened to New York, it’s a ghost town,” the president told viewers.

“And when it comes to Plexiglass, these are restaurants that are dying. They are moneyless businesses. Plexiglass is incredibly expensive and is not the answer.”

“What, are you going to sit there in a cubby wrapped in plastic? These are businesses that are dying, Joe. He can’t do that to people. You just can’t.

“Take a look at New York, what has happened to my wonderful city for so many years. I loved it, it was vibrant, but now it’s dying and everyone is leaving New York.”

“Take a look at what New York has done in terms of rejection, in terms of the number of people dying,” Biden responded.

“I don’t look at this the way he does.”

Trump has been insisting that the virus will disappear since the first months of the pandemic.

With the elections fast approaching, he has continued to hold large political rallies with thousands of attendees packed together, no social distancing and only a minority of people wearing face masks.

Earlier this week, a Columbia University study found that between 130,000 and 210,000 of coronavirus deaths in the United States were preventable and could have been prevented if political leaders had acted earlier with “stronger” measures to contain the spread. of the illness.